Switzerland's choices for the 2020/21 season: here is also the new Wendy Holdener technician

19 athletes are included in the national team, 4 more than the historic last year. The Austrian Klaus Mayrhofer entered the federal cadres to follow Wendy.

Friday 17 April 2020 4 minutes reading time

The Swiss squadron is already ready for the 2020/21 season, with Swiss Ski having made official the choices of staff for the various teams. One of the most anticipated news, anticipated by the newspaper "Blick", was linked to the technician who will personally follow Wendy Holdener after his farewell to Werner Zurbuchen (who will have less effort taking care of the junior team): it is the 47-year-old Austrian Klaus Mayrhofer, inserted in the federal cadres of the squadron that brought home the absolute classification by nations, and ready to push Wendy towards the definitive leap in quality. "I have known Wendy for a long time, she is ambitious and determined - the words of Mayrhofer, who led Sarka Strachova for 5 years before working for the Austrian federsci too - I like to work with athletes so available and I believe that you can get that first victory in slalom that she still lacks. " There will be a total of 19 athletes in the national team (11 men and 8 women), 4 more than the previous year; the director of Swiss alpine skiing, Walter Reusser, in concert with the technicians has promoted Urs Kryenbuehl (on the podium in the second descent of Bormio, before injuring himself) from team B directly to the main team, while Gino Caviezel, Niels Hintermann and Carlo Janka are climbed from team A, to compose a team that also includes Beat Feuz, Marco Odermatt, Loic Meillard, Mauro Caviezel, Thomas Tumler and the slalom aces Daniel Yule and Ramon Zenhaeusern, while we find Justin Murisier in team A. Among the women, Aline Danioth, who was seriously injured in Sestriere after reaching the best results of her career in the World Cup, and Joana Haehlen back from the first podiums in the maximum circuit, climb to the top floor. With them, here are Michelle Gisin, Jasmine Flury, Melanie Meillard (highly anticipated for the real return after having played a few races in the last season), Lara Gut-Behrami, Wendy Holdener and Corinne Suter. The total is 96 athletes engaged in Swiss Ski alpine ski teams, ten more than in 2019/20.

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